Deep vellum publishing feb 2016 (7 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Installed behind his desk with notebook, ashtray, whiskey, and 'several typewriters of various calibers,' Werner Kofler embarks on a tour not through space but through literature, and through his abortive attempts at producing a work he can call his own. 'Art must destroy reality,' he trumpets, yet, in the spirit of his 'beloved Beckett,' each failed attempt at the writing desk only drives the effort endlessly, angrily on. The first English translation of a central figure in Austrian fiction, At the Writing Desk is a battle cry against every cultural and literary status quo.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I Saw Her That Night, a love story in time of war, is a novel about a few years in the life and mysterious disappearance of Veronika Zarnik, a young bourgeois woman from Ljubljana, sucked into the whirlwind of a turbulent period in history. We follow her story from the perspective of five different characters, who also talk about themselves, as well as the troubled Slovenian times before and during World War II; times that swallowed, like a Moloch, not only the people of various beliefs involved in historical events, but also those who lived on the fringes of tumultuous events, which they did not even fully comprehend-they only wanted to live. But 'only' to live was an illusion: it was a time when, even under the seemingly safe and idyllic shelter of a manor house in Slovenia, it was impossible to avoid the rushing train of violence.Drago Jan¿ar won both the Best Foreign Book Prize (Prix du meilleur livre etranger) and The Kresnik Award for I Saw Her That Night. Often described as 'the seismologist of a chaotic history,' the celebrated Slovenian novelist has received a number of other honors, including the European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - - Honored as a 'Most Anticipated' book of 2016 by The Millions, featured in the 'Great 2016 Book Preview'- Jack Cox touted as as 'a young, Australian Beckett.' - 'It will go down as one of the most charming, mystifying, and dexterous first novels to have appeared in some thirty years.' - Jeremy M. Davies, editor.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for constructing a novel, which he calls 'a building site beneath the open sky,' but he can't seem to persuade his more widely read wife, Marianne, a character from an earlier novel of his, that it's any good. She is in New York, receiving treatment for a mysterious condition hitherto unknown to medical science, and her sardonic advice, imparted over the telephone, only hinders the novel's progress. Meanwhile, the narrator's extra-marital affair with Milena, a young Slovak novelist who writes in French, is turning sour, not helped by the large age difference between them and the fact that her Parisian publisher is far more prestigious than his. The affair ends after an acrimonious exchange of e-mails, in which she is ultimately revealed to be nothing but a literary device. Interspersed among the hapless narrator's accounts of his novel's growing pains, the story of the characters he has invented--Tsvetan, a Bulgarian truck driver, and Beatrice, an impenetrable French erotic dancer haunted by a childhood obsession with hedgehogs¿unfolds according to its own oneiric logic, before hurtling to a fatal conclusion.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts its shadow, and Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature represents, in its author s words, a report on ten years watching of shadows. Collecting the earliest short essays and reviews by a man who was arguably the greatest English-language critic-scholar of the twentieth century, Gnomon not only provides valuable, entertaining, and often scabrous insights into the workings of literature, as well as the books of such modern giants as William Carlos Williams, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Ezra Pound, but is itself a cross-section of the development of Kenner s own body of work, which in its beauty, irreverence, and disregard for convention proves him as much an artist as the men and women he spent his life championing.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A monumental, subversive classic of twentieth-century literature jailed upon its publication as one of the finest novels ever written in Hebrew,A Roomis in the league ofGravity's RainboworThe Recognitions:A bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris breaks into a morgue to recreate Mantegna's Lamentation of Christ. A scripture (with commentary!) tells of a mythical nation uniting to construct a monument to their deity, then falling into chaos when no one can agree on its precise form or dimensions.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Translation as Innovation: Bridging the Sciences and the Humanities' was the theme of the second biennial conference coordinated through a partnership between the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois and the Centre d'Études sur la Traduction at the University of Paris Denis-Diderot. The proceedings of that conference, collected here, examine the role of translation in the transmission of knowledge, particularly in the sciences, recognizing translation as a non-neutral activity and instead as an act that may enhance topic awareness or even generate debate.…